Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, sentence 6

But the other bird sneered at him for being a poor simpleton, who did all the hard work, while the other two stayed at home and had a good time of it.

Who acts: other bird, poor simpleton, other two · What happens: sneer, be, do, stay, have · To what, where: hard work, home

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other bird, poor simpleton, other two), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 sneered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bird	amod
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneered	nsubj
5	sneered	sneer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sneered	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 simpleton	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 simpleton	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 simpleton	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 simpleton	amod
12	simpleton	simpleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneered	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 did	nsubj
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 simpleton	acl:relcl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 work	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
18	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 work	amod
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 did	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stayed	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 stayed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 two	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 two	amod
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 stayed	nsubj
25	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sneered	parataxis
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stayed	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stayed	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 time	det
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 time	amod
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 time	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sneered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneer	past	the other bird				at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund					for a poor simpleton	tree rules
3	do	past	a poor simpleton	all hard work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	stay	past	the other two		home			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	have	past	the other two not said here			time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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